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Lisa Sachs, Matthew Beck

Lisa Ehrlich Sachs, a daughter of Dr. Sonia Ehrlich Sachs and Jeffrey D. Sachs of New York, was married there Saturday evening to Matthew Lewis Steven Beck, a son of Marsha Dorman-Beck and David R. Beck of Philadelphia. Rabbi Peter H. Schweitzer officiated at Tavern on the Green in New York.

The bride, 26, is keeping her name. She is the assistant director of the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment at Columbia University. She graduated from Harvard and received a law degree and a master’s in international affairs from Columbia.

Her father, an economist, is the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia. He is also a special adviser to the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon. Her mother is the health coordinator of the Millennium Villages project, which is sponsored by the Earth Institute and other organizations, and concentrates on extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa.

The bridegroom, 31, is a vice president at Spear, Leeds & Kellogg, a securities brokerage and specialist firm in New York that is owned by Goldman Sachs. He graduated from Vassar.

His mother is a clinical social worker at Growth Opportunity Center, a mental health center in Huntingdon Valley, Pa. His father, now retired, was a vice president at Merrill Lynch in Philadelphia, where he managed individual portfolios.